Improvement in cotton-planters



emo site Letters Patent No. 109,499, datedt November 22, 1870.

IMPRVEMENT lN COTTON'PLANTERS.

The Scheule reen'ed to in these Letters Patent and making 'part of the same.

To all whom it 'nuty concera:

Be it known that I, J 01m S. DICKASON, of Sulphur Well, in the count-y of Shelby and Stateiof Tennessee, have inventcd a new and improved Ootton-Planter; and I do hereby deolare theI following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which` the figurc is a side ole- Vation, with partial sectional views.

rl `his invention relates to an iinprovelnent in oottonplanters; and consists in the arrangement of parts hereinafter described.

In the-drawinga is the stockior frame.

b is the seed-box, constrncted polygonal, and pro- -vided with the disks c and (Z, secnred to` its end by rods, e, having hcads at one end and nuts and screws at the other.

f is a lid, through which the seed is introduced to the seed-box b, g being one of the hinges and h the hook and staple'ivhich secure it.

VAl disch'arge-orifice7 i, is made in the longitudinal center of each angle of the seed-,box l).

j, the leading-wheel.

lt is the share-beam, to which the fnrroa'er l is selcured.

m is a crank. at each cud of the shaft on which the leader-whcel j revolvcs.

The seed-'box b is provided with a similar crank, n.

o is the guide, consistiug of two pieces, secured through theirv ends one to each side of the share-beam k and nprightj).

The upright 1) is seoured 'to the cross-piece q of the frame a and to the eoverer r.

rI'he coverer has the cnrved recess s on its-side, and is inortised to the uprights t of the frame.

and' v are the links connectihg the frame a and the bar a, to which the whififletree is attached.

The links '1: are fastened to the beams of the frame i as far bac-k as the .cross-piece w, so that, When the. planterapproaches a stump or tree, the horse can-bei i turned so as to avoid it, and the planter can be'rnn' almost against it, for the purpose of planting the seed.

The leading-wheel j communicates motiou through the pitmen 'n to the seed-box b. Asthe latter re'- vo'lves it discharges the seed through the discharge orifice 'i into the furrow made by the furrower l, the

- guide i keeping the furrow open until the seed' is difs-.

charged, when the coverer fr follows after a'nd corers it.

-Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and' desire Jco-seenre by'Let .ters Patcn t, is-

JOHN s.V DIcKAs'oN;

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a a are the pitinen, vone 'on each side of the frame; 

